Big Moon Ritual

Tulsa yesterday tomorrow forever
Today I think I'll take my own sweet time
You can tell by my blues that I'm no beginner
Or just look into my eyes
I learned my lessons in the days back in the dogwood
Left some footprints in the deep red clay
Found my way past the temptations of plenty
Let the sound take me all the way
It's a low down dirty sorrow
To know the real pain of love
Somethings you own some you borrow
Until you let it go
Find a garden let it grow
And what you find
Let it shine
Let your chariot swing low

West wind blow my blood runs cold from to much trouble
West wind blow howl thru my bones tonight

Tulsa yesterday tomorrow forever
Today i think i'll take my own sweet time
You can tell by my shoes that i am a believer
Or just look into my eyes

Rosalee you little country thang
Sure ‘nuff know, how to make me smile
You like the jangle, of my tambourine
Won’t you stay a little while

Rosalee, sugar sweet
How I’d like to make you mine
I’d take you down, to the county seat
You could take my name anytime
Is the air getting thinner, or are we getting high x4

Have mercy on a day dreamin’ man
My boots aint dry from the flood
Gave you my word, to do the best that I can
I understand this bird in hand, is better than two in the bush

Who do I see but miss Rosalee
Sure a site for sore eyes
I like the things she says to me
In a voice as soft as twilight

Chorus

And it’s all down hill, to the beach from here, Lonely
I’ve got something here to share, Only

Is the air getting thinner, or are we getting high X4

Rosalee you little county thang
Sure ‘nuff know, how to make me smile
You like the jangle, of my tambourine
Won’t you stay a little while

Rosalee, Rosalee

I was 13th at the table when the wine was passed around
Amid an air of suspicion my glance was meet with callous frowns
If I was superstitious I'd be the black cat no one wants hang'n round
Dark whispers in the hallway accusations out of bitter mouths
Strange figures in the doorway a dog barks a drunkard's laugh
There's screaming in the kitchen glass breaks just then the lights go out

Let winter chase butterflies
Let the child believe in lies
Let the road run by my door
I can't stay here anymore
I won't , I won't turn back at my dreams burning on the side of the road
Sometimes it just goes like that
Falling or flying , star or stone

Close the window I just can't hear the highway anymore
Lay beside me and let our fires burn until the dawn

Oooooooh, Oooooooh
A telephone was ringing a heavy price on the other line
Outside the window a comet shoots across the sky
Between love and hope and money
There's loss and pain and honey
So take a spoonful every time
And if you don't like what you see
Don't come running to me
Cause I'm bound to my own way
I'm a million miles away
I won't I won't turn back see my dreams burning on the side of the road
Sometimes it just goes like that
Falling or flying , star or stone

Tomorrow blues you know I got them today
I can't believe what my baby say
Lips are move'n all I hear is goodbye
Been on the road so long my shoes turned to sand
Looking for a good time girl who understands
Looking for a rose in the garden of thorns

You been begging for what you owe
And baby that ain't right
It's time for the truth be told
Time to shed some light
And let it flow tonight
Let me see you
Feel you be you
Before I head out down the line

Tomorrow blues you know I got them right now
If you've been Inside my footprints you'd know that I'm down
Looking up at the moon from a bottom of a well
Tomorrow blues you know I got them again
See I remember when we were best friends
I held her hand she held my tremble 'n heart

Big gun powder and the Glasgow girl
Our lady of the highway with a string of pearls
Well I aint no modern masterpiece
New surrealist movement in the key of G

Oooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh
Oooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh

Well my baby loves me like an auto-harp
You see she plucks my mind and she strums my heart
We’re both victims of gravity
She’ll never fly away from me

Well you can tell by looking I’m not like the rest
Sometimes a broken mirror, reflects back the best

Well look inside my Chinese box
You have the key to every lock
It’s made of old chestnut and a lacquer top
Well once you stop you can never stop

Oooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh
Oooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh

Well you can tell by looking I’m not like the rest
Sometimes a broken mirror, reflects back the best

A vagabond child, has come back home
A walk through the clouds, in a sky the color of stone

To you I'm just a memory
Something lost among the leaves
Something found along the way
And so begin these empty pages
At the end of a dream
Watch it slowly fade away
The slight of hand the bait and switch
All the parlor tricks have been played on me
I've seen them come and watched them go
Into the night down a road of stone
Beware, oh take care
I guess it takes a thief to know one
And liars live for broken things
Traitors just smile and smile
The actor has his black mirror
The poet a poison throne
To rule his kingdom alone
But I'm still singing the blues
Dancing that old soft shoe
I'm still drift'n from cloud to cloud
Never looking to come down
From hell to high water
Over that angel bridge
Out into the wilderness
Beware, oh take care

Pacific standard time, Georgia state line
Thread the needle, riddle my rhyme
Come knock on my door
The fools finger wears the crown
Time to tie, your ribbons round
Around the sun, around the moon
Around our Love

100 days of rain in front of me
I’ve been thru this storm before
Blow a kiss and wave goodbye to me
Soon I’ll be outside your door

Pick an apple, bruise a peach
You can’t learn, what you can’t teach
This ain’t dinner, it’s a feast
Just like old Levi
Hanging on to the hanging on
You cant make right lest you know wrong
Cant join the band unless you sing the song
So let bygones be gone

Chorus

Fair and tender lady
come take my mind and wander
Lay with me, until the stars refuse to shine
Be my dream thru sweet silver slumber
Beyond this morning past the gray walls of time

There is what we’re given,
there is what we gave,
what you lose, what you gain
There is what must be broken,
what must be saved
And what’s already gone X2

100 days of rain in front of me
I’ve been through this storm before
Blow a kiss and wave goodbye to me
Morning comes like it has before
The ocean always finds the shore
So let it be forever more